Game of Thrones' Davos on Final Trailer Scene: 'Kit Harington Gives Good Corpse'

Just what is Davos Seaworth (Liam Cunningham) up to in the final scene of Game of Thrones: Season 6's red band trailer?

Full spoilers for Game of Thrones through the Season 5 finale continue below.

The sequence that ends the Game of Thrones: Season 6 trailer has launched plenty of speculation about the Onion Knight's role this season given that he's lost his king and the men of the Night's Watch have mutinied. In the scene, Davos draws a sword as he says, "I've never been much of a fighter. Apologies for what you're about to see."

That quick moment -- and Davos's proximity to the corpse of Jon Snow (Kit Harington) -- has launched a new wave of intense speculation about the ultimate fate of the Lord Commander. Was Davos about to behead the corpse of Jon Snow? Defend him against angry members on the Night's Watch? Participate in -- gasp! -- his potential resurrection?

IGN got on the phone with Cunningham and asked him about Davos's big moment in the trailer. He couldn't set the record straight about what actually is occurring (we'll all have to wait patiently for Season 6 to premiere to find that out), but he did admit to watching the speculation unfold.

"I got, 'What's he doing - going to chop Ghost's head off?'" Cunningham added to the growing list of questionable things Davos could potentially be doing in that sequence. (Fortunately, Ghost can probably defend himself pretty easily.) "[Davos is] gonna be in the thick of it," Cunningham said. "You have to remember the enemies of Jon Snow did this, and he is there. Davos has nowhere else to go. Dragonstone is dead, Stannis is dead. Shireen's gone. Jon Snow is gone. But he is where he is purely by matter of location."

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Explaining the circumstances surrounding that specific moment, Cunningham explained, "What he's got to put up with there is the Lord Commander is dead and there's inevitably going to be some sort of mayhem going on. He's part of that, and it depends -- as somebody called it, Davos got the mic drop at the end of the trailer, which I thought was a great phrase. You have to place that particular moment in terms of timeframe when you last saw the end of Season 5."

As the trailer showed, Cunningham had the unique opportunity to shoot opposite the corpse of Jon Snow, as played by actor Kit Harington. Harington joked recently that playing the dead body of Jon was some of his best acting -- a comment Cunningham said was "thoroughly tongue-in-cheek." But given the intense fan focus on whether and in what way Jon Snow would be in Season 6, Cunningham admitted shooting these scenes with Jon Snow, dead or whatever may happen, was strange.

"It's unbelievable," he said. "We already know it was mayhem when the final thing [happened] -- there was many a heart broken when the man went down. But yeah, we of course needed him back, and I think Kit's already said that he filmed a couple of scenes when he was a corpse. Mr. Kit Harrington, he gives good corpse."

Game of Thrones: Season 6 premieres Sunday, April 24 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO.

Terri Schwartz is Entertainment Editor at IGN. Talk to her on Twitter at @Terri_Schwartz.